Delhi Excise Policy 'Scam': Court Extends Manish Sisodia's Judicial Custody Till June 1 In ED's Case

Delhi's Rouse Avenue court has extended the judicial custody of former deputy CM Manish Sisodia till June 1 in the ED's case in the excise policy matter.

Trouble cotinues for Manish Sisodia as Delhi court extends his judicial custody in exclise policy case till June 1.

Source : PTI

Delhi Excise Policy Case: In a big development, Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court has extended the judicial custody of AAP leader and former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia till June 1 in the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) case of the excise policy issue. The court also directed the jail authorities to consider his request to provide him chair and table for study purposes. This comes after the same court earlier this month extended Sisodia's judicial custody till June 2 in the CBI case on Delhi excise policy.

The Rouse Avenue Court on May 8 had extended Manish Sisodia's judicial custody in the ED case of excise policy matter till May 23. This came after ED submitted before the Court that due to Sisodia's activities as Excise Minister, a proceed of the crime of Rs 622 crores was generated in the excise policy case, reported news agency ANI.

The ED had earlier filed a 2,000-page chargesheet against the jailed AAP leader for the first time.

Sisodia was arrested by the ED in this case on March 9 from Tihar Jail. He was first arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is also probing the case.

This was the fourth supplementary and overall fifth chargesheet or prosecution complaint filed in the case by the ED before a designated special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Delhi, reported PTI.

The agency has called Sisodia a "key conspirator" in this case. It had alleged, in the previous chargesheets, that the alleged liquor policy scam was a "conspiracy" undertaken by some of the big political leaders of the AAP and the so-called 'South Group' comprising BRS leader K Kavitha, YSR Congress MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy and others who "used" proxies and dummies to conceal their involvement.

The former Delhi deputy chief minister has also been accused of destroying evidence, such as crushing his cell phones and changing SIMs multiple times.